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The World Happiness Report (2016) ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels.

Usage

Happiness

Format

A tibble with 157 rows and 14 variables:

Country

chr The name of the Country

Region

chr The geographical region of the Country

Happiness.Rank

int The value of happiness. There are 6 factors that were calculated into the score : GDP, social suppot, health life expectancy, life choices freedom, generosity and perceptions of corruption. The lower the value the happier ranking.

Happiness.Score

num The statistical average for the happiness scores.

Lower.Confidence.Interval

num The lower confidence interval for happiness score.

Upper.Confidence.Interval

num The upper confidence interval for happiness score.

Economy.GDP.per.capita

num The Gross Domestic Gross of a country in terms of Purchasing Power Parity used by World Development Indicators (WDI)

Family

num Average of family happiness ranking

Health.Life.Expectancy

num The average for health and life expectancy scores.

Freedom

num The average score of personal freedoms

Trust.Government.Corruption

num The average score of level of personal trust in government

Dystopia.Residual

num The statistical residual affect of dystopian views and life.